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by Gérard Labrunie (1808 - 1855), as Gérard de Nerval

Delfica
Language: French (Français) 
La connais-tu, Dafné, cette ancienne romance
Au pied du sycomore, ou sous les lauriers blancs,
Sous l'olivier, le myrte, ou les saules tremblants
Cette chanson d'amour qui toujours recommence ? ...

Reconnais-tu le TEMPLE au péristyle immense,
Et les citrons amers où s'imprimaient tes dents,
Et la grotte, fatale aux hôtes imprudents,
Où du dragon vaincu dort l'antique semence ? ..

Ils reviendront, ces Dieux que tu pleures toujours !
Le temps va ramener l'ordre des anciens jours ;
La terre a tressailli d'un souffle prophétique ...

Cependant la sibylle au visage latin
Est endormie encor sous l'arc de Constantin
- Et rien n'a dérangé le sévère portique.

Text Authorship:

  • by Gérard Labrunie (1808 - 1855), as Gérard de Nerval, "Delfica", appears in Petits Châteaux de Bohême, in Odelettes, first published 1853 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Jean-Guy Bailly (1925 - 2009), "Delfica", 1995 [ baritone and orchestra ], from Les Chimères, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2014-03-24
Line count: 14
Word count: 101

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